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Ten Little Indians

Sherman Alexie

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Ten Little Indians won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. In these lyrical, affectionate tales from the author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, characters navigate the crossroads of culture, battle stereotypes, and find themselves through everything from politics to basketball. Richard, the narrator of "Lawyer's League," grows up in Seattle, the son of "an African American giant who played defensive end for the University of Washington Huskies" and "a petite Spokane Indian ballerina." A woman is caught in a restaurant when a suicide bomb goes off in "Can I Get a Witness." And Estelle Walks Above (née Estelle Miller), studies her way off the Spokane Indian Reservation and goes on to both enjoy and resent the company of the white women of Seattle—who see her as a shamanic genius, and look to her for guidance on everything from sex and fashion to spirituality. These and the other stories in Ten Little Indians run the gamut from earthy wit to sobering emotional truth, mapping the outer reaches of the human heart.

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Publisher
Open Road Media
ISBN-13
9781480457201
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Native American identityCultural displacementFamily and relationships

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